Holder for cigars in packages.



THoMAs EEAEON, 0E PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, AssIGNoE fro THE MILLER,

' DU EEUL AND rETEEs MANUEACTUEINGCO., or cINoINNATLoHmAecEPoEA- TIoN or oHIo.,

HOLDER FOR'CIGARS IN PACKAGES'.

Patented 00113.23, 191?.

Application led October 25, 1916. Serial No. 127,643.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, THOMAS E. FEARON, a citizen of the United States, residing at and whose post-oifice address is 1510 North Gratz street, Philadelphia, Pennsylva-nia, have invented a certain new and useful Holder for Cigars in Packages, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to a holder for cigars that will sustain them in position when some of the cigars have been removed from a package, particularly, a package in which the cigars stand on end. The invention has for its object to provide an inexpensive means for effectively accomplishing this purpose, and particularly one that may be made from a single sheet of paper or other cheap material.

The essential characteristics of a device of this kind are stalls or pockets to receive the cigars, preferably a separate pocket for each cigar, and the capacity, in the holder, to sustain itself and the cigars in upright position after any nilmber of cigars are removed. The present invention solves the problem and embodies these essential characteristics in a holder made of a single sheet of paper, by merely splitting the paper at intervals along an intermediate zone to provide straps which, while remaining integral with the sheet of paper at their respective ends, are separated therefrom along their lateral edges for a sufficient distance to enable each strap to be looped or arched outwardly from the plane of the paper and form a pocket to receive a cigar. As this loop or arch of the strap-forming portions of the paper necessarily contracts the paper longitudinally, the resultant fullness in the zones or longitudinal strips .of paper on either side of the strap forming portions, is gathered, iuted or plaited, and when thus formed, these gathered portions are in condition to serve as confining walls for t-he cigars, opposing the walls provided by the strap-forming portions. the portions of the paper sheet forming said opposing walls develops resiliency and pro- The gathering ofl holder constructed as described', is ieXible l in the highest degree and especially well adaptedfor rolling itscontained cigars into a bundle of cylindrical or other form.

In order that the invention may be fully understood, a detailed description will now be given of one illustrative embodiment thereof, in connection with the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly in section, of a cigar package made up in part of a packing holder embodying the invention;

Fig. 2 is an edge View of a portion of the packing holder, and

Fig. 3 is a face View of the same.

In producing the new packing holder, a sheet of paper 1 is slitted at intervals along opposite edges of an intermediate longitudinal zone, as illustrated at 2; to provide pocket-forming straps 3; unslitted portions 4L being left to maintain the connection of these straps with the sheet or main body of the holder. The straps 3 are arched outward as shown in Fig. 2 and so form pockets 5 for the cigars; the end zones 6 of the original sheet, necessarily left with fullness by the arching of the straps being fluted, plaited, or otherwise treated to take up the fullness, and they are thus adapted to serve as base walls opposing the walls formed by the straps and thus completing the pockets. The iuting or gathering of the base of the sheet, adapts the packing holder to roll into a cylindrical or other form of bundle, inasmuch as it is notl only highly iexible, but yielding to both compression and tension in the longitudinal direction of the sheet.

I claim 1. A packing holder for cigars or the like comprising a sheet of material slit at intervals along an intermediate longitudinal zone and having the straps thus formed, deflected to provide pockets and the longitudinal portions of the sheet lying on either side of said straps, gathered and forming base Walls opposing the strap Walls in the coniinement of articles in the pockets.

2. A packing holder for articles of merchandise comprising arched straps arranged along an intermediate longitudinal zone of thehholder and longitudinal Zones of gathered material arranged on either side of the Strap Zone, the arched straps and the gath-` ered material forming pockets to receive the articles to be packed.

THOMAS E. FEARON.

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Washington, D. C. i 

